REPRESENTING CRITICAL DATA FIELDS OF DATA TABLE

1 . An article of manufacture including a non-transitory computer readable storage medium to tangibly store instructions, which when executed cause one or more computers in a network of computers to:

determine at least one data field from a plurality of data fields of a data table;

read data related to the determined at least one data field;

generate a graphical representation of the data related to the determined at least one data field;

display the generated graphical representation along with the data table;

receive a selection of a subset of the data displayed on the graphical representation; and

display a subset of the data table based upon the selected subset of the data.

2 . The article of manufacture of claim 1 further comprising instructions which when executed cause the one or more computers in the network of computers to:

identify a modification in the determined at least one data field of the data table; and

based upon the identified modification in the determined at least one data field, modify the graphical representation.

3 . The article of manufacture of claim 1 , wherein the data table is related to alerts and the determined at least one data field includes at least one of a risk score related to the alerts, a risk value related to the alerts, a time period within which the alerts are due, and a user responsible for the alerts.

4 . The article of manufacture of claim 1 , wherein the determined at least one data field is more frequently analyzed data field of the data table.

5 . The article of manufacture of claim 1 , wherein the determined at least one data field is predefined.

6 . The article of manufacture of claim 1 , wherein the graphical representation comprises a filter for the at least one data field of the plurality of data fields of the data table and one or more filter options are associated with the filter.

7 . The article of manufacture of claim 6 further comprising instructions which when executed cause the one or more computers in the network of computers to:

receive a selection of a filter option from the one or more filter options; and

based upon the selection of the filter option, modify the graphical representation.

8 . The article of manufacture of claim 1 , wherein the graphical representation is displayed in one of a horizontal orientation and a vertical orientation relative to the data table.

9 . The article of manufacture of claim 1 , wherein the graphical representation is displayed upon receiving a command from a user.

10 . A computer-implemented method for representing at least one data field of a data table, the method comprising:

determining the at least one data field from a plurality of data fields of the data table;

reading data related to the determined at least one data field;

generating a graphical representation of the data related to the determined at least one data field;

displaying the generated graphical representation along with the data table;

receiving a selection of a subset of the data displayed on the graphical representation; and

displaying a subset of the data table based upon the selected subset of the data.

11 . The method of claim 10 further comprising:

identifying a modification in the determined at least one data field of the data table; and

based upon the identified modification in the determined at least one data field, modifying the graphical representation.

12 . The method of claim 10 , wherein the graphical representation is displayed upon receiving a user's command through a user interface element displayed on the data table.

13 . The method of claim 10 , wherein the data table is related to alerts and the determined at least one data field includes at least one of a risk score related to the alerts, a risk value related to the alerts, a time period within which the alerts are due, and a user responsible for the alerts.

14 . The method of claim 10 , wherein the graphical representation comprises a filter for the at least one data field of the plurality of data fields of the data table and one or more filter options are associated with the filter.

15 . The method of claim 14 further comprising:

receiving a selection of a filter option from the one or more filter options; and

based upon the selection of the filter option, modifying the graphical representation.

16 . A computer system for representing data fields of a data table, the computer system comprising:

a memory to store program code; and

a processor communicatively coupled to the memory, the processor configured to execute the program code to render a GUI, the GUI comprising:

a data table comprising at least one of:

one or more critical data fields and data corresponding to the one or more critical data fields; and

one or more non-critical data fields and data corresponding to the one or more non-critical data fields;

and

a graphical representation of the data related to at least one of the one or more critical data fields and the one or more non-critical data fields, the graphical representation comprising:

a plurality of selectable geometrical shapes representing the data related to the at least one of the critical data fields and the non-critical data fields, wherein the GUI is configured to receive a selection of one or more of the geometrical shapes and upon receiving the selection, a subset of the data table is displayed based upon the one or more selected geometrical shapes.

17 . The computer system of claim 16 , wherein the GUI further comprises an icon for performing one of:

displaying the graphical representation; and

hiding the graphical representation.

18 . The computer system of claim 16 , wherein the graphical representation further comprises a filter element for at least one of the one or more critical data fields and the one or more non-critical data fields and one or more selectable filter options is associated with the filter element.

19 . The computer system of claim 16 , wherein the graphical representation is displayed in one of a horizontal orientation and a vertical orientation relative to the data table.

20 . The computer system of claim 16 , wherein the data table is related to alerts and the one or more critical data fields include at least one of a risk score related to the alerts, a risk value related to the alerts, a time period within which the alerts are due, and a user responsible for the alerts.